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Help me flesh this out: Tethmos High Priest Darkblast Flame Jab -> Martyr of Ashes Apprentice Necromancer Augur of Skulls Cartel Aristocrat Mogg War Marshal Phantasmal Image Saffi Eriksdotter Qasali Pridemage Sakura-Tribe Elder Voice of Resurgence

this seems fun to revisit

Sorin Markov

The key to making Young Pyromancer good isn't getting some minor additional value out of your spells but exploiting the tokens - Opposition, Attrition/Grave Pact, Dark Prophecy/Fecundity, equipment, Purphoros, Dread Return, Windbrisk Heights, whatever. If you are going to mess around with it...

Beastmaster Ascension

Dictate of Erebos?

Grave Pact

I have dubs SCM/Pyromancer already, Witness could work I suppose

The biggest hurdle to overcome is that Ajani's Pridemate is the only real 'payoff' (sure, you can go animal with Archangel of Thune, but that's not something you can build around by itself), and you can't do it halfheartedly. I know you said you once had a Junk deck with incidental Pridemates...

If your Cube is constructed so that you have to work to get 23 good playables by the end - say, because the manafixing is scarce enough that you have to take it over good spells for your deck - then it's much harder to justify taking a pick off to grab a sideboard card. This is perhaps less of a...

Note that wanting sideboards to be a thing is incompatible with the attitude some have of wanting players to navigate the draft very carefully, fight for manafixing, and so on. You can have that added focus during the draft, but only at the expense of deckbuilding and sideboarding.

tl;dr: add some fucking removal

Prophetic Flamespeaker Blazing Shoal Greater Gargadon

Maze of Ith

One way to use multi-picks: suppose I have a Waddellite love of Zombies but also want to have an enchanted evening. Instead of having my black 1-drops be: Gravecrawler + Gnarled Scarhide they could be: [Gravecrawler + Gravecrawler] + [Gnarled Scarhide + Gnarled Scarhide] That way, if...

There is a busted red 2-drop! Goblin Electromancer

Timely Reinforcements has a fair bit of play to it though. In Modern the aggro decks can try to neutralize it by paring down their own life total via fetchlands/shocklands, which is obviously much easier in Constructed but doable here if you have 2x fetches/shocks. Three tokens from one card is...

The Command cycle has some great art: Cryptic Command Profane Command Primal Command also Bitterblossom Vendilion Clique ...so the good cards, basically

Tron works because it's hard for a control deck to win a fair, grindy matchup against decks like UWR or Pod while also being competitive against combo, lightning-fast starts from Robots, and so on. Tron gives you a way to go over the top of any control/midrange deck, and thereby lets you devote...

I love Pack Rat. Cube is basically the perfect setting for it.